CLARENCE CRICKET CLUB. A William IV silver box of rectangular shape with slightly incurved sides, engraved all over with a scrollwork design of flowers and leaves on a matted and fish scale ground, the lid engraved at the centre with Ducal coronet surmounting two cricket bats in saltire with the monogram C. C. C., gilt-lined with the inside lid engraved: "Presented to the Royal Clarence Cricket Club by Philip Sheppard Esqr. 18 June 1836," made by John Linnit Snr., London, 1836, 70 x 91mm. (2¾ x 3½in.), 7.5oz.

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CLARENCE CRICKET CLUB. A William IV silver box of rectangular shape with slightly incurved sides, engraved all over with a scrollwork design of flowers and leaves on a matted and fish scale ground, the lid engraved at the centre with Ducal coronet surmounting two cricket bats in saltire with the monogram C. C. C., gilt-lined with the inside lid engraved: "Presented to the Royal Clarence Cricket Club by Philip Sheppard Esq^r. 18 June 1836," made by John Linnit Snr., London, 1836, 70 x 91mm. (2¾ x 3½in.), 7.5oz.

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AN UNUSUALLY EARLY AND ATTRACTIVE PIECE OF SILVER TO HAVE A CRICKETING THEME. The Clarence Cricket Club would have been founded when William IV was still Duke of Clarence, presumably with the Duke himself as its patron. Unfortunately, there appears to be no historical record of the club's membership, though it is known to have played matches against Harrow and other teams on the famous Surrey cricket ground of Moulsey Hurst (now East Molesey) from the mid 1820's to the late 1830's.

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